Wichita eagle., 1887-05-27
CAUSE OF BADNESS.

!. CAUSE OF BADNESS. !:
THEORIES OFFERED BY SCIENTIFIC
PEOPLE NOT SATISFACTORY.
The Real Cause Set Forth-Ths Csc ol
Hard Felt Hats-uuggish Cirsulasisa
IN the Capillariss Of the ssalp-Ths
Remedy.
There has been much learned speculation a.
70 the cause Of badness Scientific person1
committed to the theories Of evolution have
found in the multiplication Of smooth and
glttering skulls in the centers Of civilization
evidence that the man Of tho future win diff
fer greatly In appearance from the man OF
the past We have bean told that the coming
man win have no thatch ON his brain roof,
and that it u gradually disappearing now
because we have no uss for IL With the
hair win 60 the teeth, it p said, for the con-
ceutration Oh food by chemical processes VIII
leave no work for them to do. The muscles
Of locomotioa viii become atrofied from dc.
use, and the coming man Is to Be allow NOV.
ing, as well as toothless and bald. Others,
whose inquiries and theories relate exclusively
to man as he Is to-dav, have asserted that
badness Is due to lack Of ventilation In the
hat, to the close cropping OF tho hair,
to the use of an artificial covering
for the skull which makes the natural thatch
guperfuous, to habit Of living and working
indoors, or to tendencies transmitted In fAmi-
lies from generation to generation.
But no one Of these alleged causes u salts
factory. Northern races that have worn
heavy fur coverings retain q luxuriant
growth of hair. The soldiers Of Europe, with
heads closely cropped and warmly covered,
do not show q marked tendency to badness.
Close cutting does not dsnuds tho back Of tho
head and neck Of hair. Indoor life does not
kill the hair ON the heads Of women.
WEARING TIE MODERN HAT.
The real cause Of badness appears to be set
forth by W. g. Gouinlock in The Popular
Science Monthly. It il the use Of hard felt
hats or any other head covering that con-
stricts the blood vessels which nourish the
hair bulbs The scalp, In which these bulbs
are set, is thin. and it lies upon the smooth
and rigid surface of the skull 1t is irrigated,
90 to speak, by arteries extending upward
In It, through which the blood is forced to the
top of the head. Slight pressure exerted upon
the surface Of the scalp tends to choke these
channels. The bony plate under them will
arteries are compressed. The modern hat is
carefully fitted to the shape Of the skull by
q "conformator," an instrument which is,
Mr.. Gouinlock says, more destructive to tho
natural head covering than ever were the
Ia - T.,
dianA Fitted by this machine the rigid band
Of the hand congresses the scalp between It
and the underlying skull at every point in it,
course around the head. This pressure les
sens the flow of arterial blood, and obstructs
the return Of the venous blood, tho result
being sluggish circulation in the capillaries
around the hair follicles and bulbs, q conss-
quent impairment of nutrition, and at Last
atrophy. The red mark Of congestion shown
on the forehead when hard hat is removed
after moderate exercise must convince any
one that this pressure is considerable. That
hair bulbs suffer from impaired nutrition u
shown when the hair crop is partly or wholly
destroyed In cases Of fever or wasting disease.
Badness begins where the circulation II
weakest, on the top Of the head, the region
that must be the first to suffer when the blood
channels from below are choked. 1t stops at
the mark az the hat band, for below that line
the blood vessels are not compressed. Some
times the hair still grows above this line and
just back Of the temples, although 10 has
ceased to grow above the line ct other points
This exception is due to the fact that on
some heads the temporal muscle serves as q
cushion to relieve pressure in those places.
Close cutting Of the hair may accelerate the
progress of badness by removing the cushion
of hair that might slightly relieve the pres
sure If it were allowed to remain.
LOOSE HEAD COVERINGS.
1t follows that the use Of soft and loose
head coverings tends to prevent badness.
Mr.. Gouinlock points ont that agriculturists,
whose habit is to wear the loosest head cover.
tngs during the greater part Of their lives,
usually have an abundance Of hair, while
their SONS who have taken to city ways may
be bald at 80. Badness is most rapidly de-
veloped in tho cases Of city men who wear
high hats on closely cropped heads, for tho
removal Of the hair takes away the natural
cushion, and the high hat must fit moro
closely than the low hat, because it Is more
liable to be displaced on account Of its height.
Some may be saved from badness in great
measure by the irregular outline Of their
heads, or by retaining thick growth Of hair
between the hat and the scalp, but as rule
pressure exerted uniformly upon the scalp in
q continuous line around the skull will cut Of
q great part Of the nourishment which nat
urally would be supplied to the hair bulbs
above that line, and as a result the hair must
suffer-
This is certainly very reasonable explana-
ton Of the causes Of badness. II pressure
that obstructs circulation and impairs nutri.
ton be the chief cause, what is tho remodyl
Obviously the use Of soft hats in such q way
that there shall be no pressure, or perhaps the
use Of hats so shaped In the band that room
shall be left for free passage Of the blood in
certain parts Of the line around the skull At
the same time some attention should be paid
to ventilation and the treatment OF diseases
of the scalp.-New York Times
Bismarck in the Ante Chamber.
When Bismarck comes to the Imperial pal
ace at Berlin, it is always in close carriage
There is only one way in which he ever
shows himself to the Berlipese and that IL on
horseback In uniform In the Theuergarten.
The chancellor is dressed In his cuiraSier's
uniform He leaves his cap In the carriage.
dons bis helmet Of polished metal, and with
shoulders down and head back tsee young la
lies boarding school man'uaD enters the pal
ace and traverses the vest1bule with his red
which contains tho fate Of nations,
pressed tightly under his arm. He i . giant